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Sakina

Hey Nury

Just wanted to say that I am sick, (yes during my christmas holidays) and your post really cheered me up!

:)
thx

Mr Jam

Sakina, get well soon -- it is Monday and Christmas is on Thursday so you only have three days to get 100 per cent fit.

Then of course, you can eat and drink to excess on Christmas day and get really sick again. Anyway, that's what I am planning to do.

With a bit of luck, I will feel really awful by Thursday evening. Awful but happy!

Sakina

Hey Nury (again)

Last year you came to my school to award my classmate a writers award. I did not participate but I love writing and really want to become big one day.

How did you become big?

Dan

Nury. Nury. Nury. (See my head shaking?)

How could you forget the biggest user of "all the people of --fill in the name of country here -- ?"

China. (And they go beyond the country borders. If you have one drop of Chinese blood, you are included.)

How many times have we heard:

"Criticism of the human rights conditions in China insults all Chinese people."

"All Chinese people are happy with the new economic plan laid out by the government."

"All Chinese people are proud of the motherland's accomplishments in -- fill in the blank."

And my favorite oldie but goodie:

"All Chinese people rejoice in the return of Hong Kong to the Motherland." (I am sure all those democrats in Hong Kong must have been surprised to find out they were not Chinese.)

And the list goes on...

Bharat

Very relevant post for this day and age of journalistic bias. Last week a national daily in Dubai reported about house prices dropping, another article talked single digit growth, on the very same page, the same day!

everyone

Dan is absolutely right of cours,e China is the great master of this, practically every day you see this in the Mainland press.

You won't believe this but the Hong Kong Standard printed the above post in full on a page along with one other article. And yes it started off with a line informing readers that every Hong kong citizen had the same opinion!!!

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